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...Though I knew it was futile, I held up the copy of the Constitution and said calmly, ''It's against the Constitution of the People's Republic of China to enter a private house without a search warrant.'' The young man snatched the copy out of my hand and threw it on the floor. Eyes blazing, he said, ''The Constitution is abolished. It was a document written by the Revisionists within the Communist Party. We recognize only the teachings of our Great Leader Chairman Mao.'' A girl came within a few inches of me and said, ''What trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in Shanghai | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...knotted at 1, on a power play just 30 seconds into final period, Vaillancourt buried the game-winner off assists from seniors Katie Johnston and Julie Chu. She made it 3-1 at the 5:13 mark, beating netminder Ashley Mayr off a feed from freshman Kathryn Farni. Vaillancourt threw in an empty-net goal with just over a minute left to finish the trifecta. “She’s holding up her end of things,” Sifers said of Vaillancourt. “That line—with Julie Chu and Jenny Brine?...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 13 Goals Power Women's Hockey Victories | 2/4/2007 | See Source »

...down low to Evan, and thank God it went through [the defender’s] legs and he was able to score.” “I don’t know how he got the ball through, but he threw it and I just saw the ball and put it up as fast as I could,” Harris added. “Luckily, there was enough time left.” Cornell (11-9, 4-2 Ivy) still had a chance to win, as forward Ugo Ihekweazu’s long inbounds passed found guard...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Basketball Upends Cornell in Final Minute | 2/4/2007 | See Source »

...Year’s resolutions was to be more optimistic in 2007, but before I could even make it to February, I threw in the towel. The quick and final blow was a recent (Clinton-backed?) “allegation” that Senator Barack Obama is a Muslim...

Author: By Nadia O. Gaber | Title: Obamaphobia | 2/4/2007 | See Source »

...went up. Was it corruption? About a dozen hands. Was it that we'd lost our way on spending and the need for small government? The majority of hands went up ... The American people came to believe that we're the party of Big Government. That's why they threw us out." Actually, no: it was Iraq and corruption. And worse, it can be argued that the failure in Iraq and the moral sloppiness that overtook the late, great Republican Congress were direct consequences of a 25-year political pendulum swing to the right, which has resulted in a vaulting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Klein: How the GOP Lost Its Way | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

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